If the holiday stress is getting to you, you might take a cue from Teacup the opossum, Prairie Park Nature Center’s mellow marsupial.
During the December holidays and around Valentine’s Day, she travels around town with the Nature Center’s staff for the Opossum Grams program, which is taking orders now for the holiday season. She delivers greetings to families and businesses, staying cool and collected ...
A crew of teen gardeners in Lawrence have just wrapped up a growing season full of hard work – a season their boss told them might be one of the most important they’ve ever had.
University of Kansas student Elinor Russo and Free State High School students Annah Steele, Felix Mueller, Anders Benson and Ellen Hanrath have been working at Growing Food Growing Health, a youth project that tends gardens at West ...
When the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka opens its new galleries on Saturday, Lawrence stone carver Karl Ramberg is excited to see some of his own history on display – well-worn mallets used by him and two of his mentors.
“I donated the one that my teacher, Elden Tefft, gave me, but also the one that his teacher, Bernard ‘Poco’ Frazier, Frazier’s family had given me,” he said of his recent ...
When the list of names is read out each year on Transgender Day of Remembrance, there’s a question that Ruby Mae Johnson struggles with.
“Who will I know next year?”
This year, at Thursday’s Transgender Day of Remembrance observance at the Ecumenical Campus Ministries building, Johnson had to read the name of someone many people in Lawrence knew. “Louise ImMasche, age 41, died October 24, 2025, in ...
One child struggling with gender dysphoria was "slicing his arms and showering in the dark" before getting treatment, Dr. Angela Turpin said. Another "could not make eye contact with anyone" and constantly apologized.
But that all changed when they received gender-affirming care, Turpin, of the Gender Pathways clinic with Children's Mercy Hospital, testified Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. They ...
A yearslong process to design historic markers for two young men who were killed in confrontations with police during a period of unrest in Lawrence in 1970 is now nearing the finish line.
At its meeting Thursday evening, the city's Historic Resources Commission will consider recommending designs for markers for the killings of Rick “Tiger” Dowdell and Harry Nicholas “Nick” Rice. Dowdell and Rice were ...
